Three Ways to Enhance BIM Processes with Naviate Accelerate

Naviate Accelerate helps you with optimising workflows: doing things like generating a door schedule or to generating a drawing to show a client — while still ensuring all the information is included by following BIM protocols. In short, Accelerate helps you do things faster in Revit by automating some of those manual and tedious tasks that you don’t enjoy doing.

Let’s take a closer look at three features in Naviate Accelerate that will save you time and enhance your current BIM processes.

Edit Parameters

Sometimes you need to edit the data on the back end of your designs. And if you need to edit multiple things, or a whole row of things, doing so in Revit can take a while. With Accelerate, you can edit parameter values in a table form, which is much easier than selecting and modifying individual cells. You can view and edit schedules, sort your list and copy/paste values. You can also import and export data to/from Excel if you’d rather edit information that way.

Edit parameters can also help you catch things that the naked eye might not see — like if, for example, a window or door is slightly out of line. In plain Revit, when looking at a drawing, you might not be able to notice that something is out of alignment. But if you look at the parameters, you can instantly see that the numbers don’t match up — and you can fix the parameters with one click.

But the real power of Edit Parameters comes during the handover process. When you’re ready to publish or export, the Project Manager can easily review the information to check if everything is complete. If not, all you have to do is click on the cell to add the missing information.

Colour Elements

Adding colour to your design isn’t just pleasing to the eye: it’s a great way to filter and classify data in your design. With Naviate Accelerate, you can colour any category by type or instance parameter values.

So, for example, if you want all windows of a certain width marked in a specific colour, you can do that with colour elements. This makes your drawings easier to understand visually. It also helps you see if things are out of line with the rest of the design. And on the back end, as a project manager, you can see which elements have been assigned values and which haven’t.

You can also create multiple filters based on your selection criteria; your filters will override current view template. You can colour parameters related to anything, from sizing to placement to grading or any other variable applied to that element.